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TICKET PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

No. 248,275. Patented 088. 18,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS BEBRO, OF KILBURN, COUNTY CF MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.

TICKET PRINTING AND NUMBERING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,275, dated October 18, 1881. Application tiled October' 23, 1880. (No model.) Patented in England May 11, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARCUS BEBRo, the above-named petitioner, a resident of Cantield House,Priory Road,lilburn, in the county ot' Middlesex, London, England, have invented new and useful improvements in mechanism or apparatus to be employed for numbering checks, tickets, and other similar and like articlesprogressivel y and consecutively, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention, for which I have obtained Letters Patent in GreatBritain, dated May 11, 1880, No. 1,917, is to produce a compact machine which will consecutively number, print, and perforate tickets, checks, labels, or the like, in a simple, cectivc, and expeditious manner; and the improvements consist, tirst, in the novel and peculiar construct-ion and arrangement ofa cylinder or cylinders containing disks provided with numbers around their periphcries so disposed and actuated that each number, from cipher to nine, will give its impression with each revolution ot the cylinder or cylinders,and the forward or higher numbers will, after the rst revolution, through the medium of suitable gearing, be brought successively into action in proper consecutive order, at times when the changes take place-viz., from the numerals to the tens, then to the hundreds, then to the thousands, and so on.

The invention consists, secondly,in adapting the before-mentioned continuous consecutive numbering cylinder or cylinders to a machine designed for printing continuously tickets, checks, labels, and the like, and combining in one machine such numbering-cylinders with printing-rollers, or rollers carrying` stereotypepla-tes, which will print upon both sides of such running length of paper subject-matter which, with the numbers consecutively printed thereon,t`orm alength oftickets which are divided one from the other by perforations previous to the length ot' printed paper being run onto a receiving-spool.

The invention consists,thirdly,in providing someofthenumbering-diskswithmovabletypc, and, in combination therewith, of mechanism to automatically retract or project said type from or to the printing-surface, for purposes hereinafter explained.

The invention conslsts, fourthly, in devices for throwing the numbering-disks out ot' gear, to enable the operator to adjust them to print from any desired number; and the invention consists, lastly, in certain details of construction and arrangement ot' the mechanism, all as hereinafter fully described.

In order that the invention may he well uuderstood, I will describe the same in detail, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents, in front elevation, a general view of the improved number and subject-matter printing-machine. Fig. 2 represen ts a plan, partly in section, ofFig. 1 through the line c e. Fig. 3 represents an end elevation ofthe same. Fig. 4 represents a section ot' Fig. 1 through the line y y. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section of a part of one of the duplicate numbering-cylinders, taken through the line x a' of Fig. 6. Fig. G represents, in front elevation, one of the duplicate cylinders I employ for printing consecutive numbers upon the running length ot' paper. This view shows the arrangement of gearing employed for effecting the changes in the numbers. Fig. 7 represents a similar view ol` the opposite side of the numbering-cylinder. Fig. 8 represents the means employed for throwing the lock-disks, giving the changes tothe numbering-disks, into and out of gear, for the purpose of enabling thc operator at any time to adjust the numbering-disks so as to print the tickets consecutively forward from zero or from any advanced number. Fig. 9 represents a side elevation of the same. Figs. 1() and 11 represent, respectively, a front elevation and side section ot' the mea-ns I adopt for placing certain ofthe types on the several numberingdisks into and out of position for printing when required at the times the changes are made. Fig. 12 is a side elevation, and Fig. 13 afront elevation, ot one of the disks that carries tiXed numerals; and Fig. 14 is a vertical longitudinal section of one of the numbering-cylinders complete.

The mechanism is mounted upon a suitable fraaie, a, and driven by a train of gearing, E, from any convenient or desired prime motor; and the machine is composed, preferably, of two numbering-cylinders, A A, combined with printing and perforating devices, hereinafter IOO described. These numbering-cylinders A A are mounted each upon a shaft, b, and being both alike in construction and operation, the description of the construction and operation of one ot them will be suflicient to enable those conversant with this class ot' machines to Jrull y understand the same.

rlhe cyiinderA is composed of two disks, c c', both provided with bearings t'or a series of (preferably tive) sha-tts, d, each carrying three numbering-disks, B C D, and suitable gearing, 71l B C C2 D. The disk c also carries a ring, k, in which bearings are formed for a series of shafts, m, corresponding` in number to that ot the shat'ts d, and carrying suitable gearing, 'B2 B3 G3 D2. The disk c also carries xed numerals, from 0 to 9, and, as there are two numbering-cylinders, A, employed, the disk c of one of the cylinders carries the even numerals and that ofthe other cylinder the odd numerals, as shown at giu Figs. 12, 13, and lli, the disk c in the former two iigures carrying the even numbers from 0 to 9 or 0 2 4 6 8, and the disk c in the latter tgure being provided with thevodd numerals, or 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9.

Referring more particularly7 to Figs. 5 and 14, the operation ot' the numbering-cylinders is as follows: c is a single-toothed disk, which is stationary and forms part ot' a square journal, f, fixed to the framing a. Supported in this fixed journal and passing through the xed disk e is the shaft b, to which are keyed the `disks c c', carrying the type-numbering disks B C D and the gearing B GCD. The type-disks B C D are all provided with printing-numbers around their peripheries, commencing with cipher and ending with nine, each disk having an independent or separate motion around its axis d transmitted to it and governed by thc gearing B, C', G2, D', h, and c. The disks c c are iixe'd to and revolve with the shaft b as well as the numbering-disks D C B, and the gearing that serves to bring said disks D C B into proper position for delivering their numbers consecutively and progressively to a running continuous length ot' paper. With each revolution ot the shaft b and disks c c the iixed numerals g deliver their numbers in consecutive order from 0 to 9. As soon as the 9 is printed the tooth of the tixed disk c gears with and imparts one-tenth of a revolution to the lock-disk h, and through the latter and the shaft ci this one-tenth of a revolution is communicated to the disk B, printing the tens, and to the single-toothed disk B', said disks B B and lock-wheel It being rigidly mounted on shaft d.

When the disks B and B' have made one complete revolution the tooth of theiatter will have given one tenth oi' a revolution kto the lock-wheel B2, which latter communicates a like movement to the spur-wheel B3. Said wheels B2 B3 are rigidly connected together and rotate freely upon their fixed stud or shaft on. rlhe spur-wheel BBcommunioates this tenth of a revolution to the spur-wheel C', the singletoothed disk @Zand the numbering-disk C, to print the huudreds,said numbering-disk C heing connected with the spur-wheel Cand disk C2 by the sleeve c2 and its collar or flange. At each complete revolution ot' thenumberingdisk C 'and the single-toothed disk C2 the tooth of the latter gears with the lock-disk C3 and imparts thereto and to the wheel D2 one-tenth of a revolution, both being rigidly connected. This tenth of a revolution is communicated to the spur-wheel D and numbering-disk D, (with which the spur-wheel D is rigidly connected by means oi' the sleeve d2) to print the thousands.

It will thus be seen that at each complete revolution of the s haftb the fixed numerals on the disk C will be printed in consecutive order and each numbering-disk B C l) ot` the live sets will be brought into position to consecutively print,tirst, the tens, then the hundreds, and then the thousands.

In order to prevent the ciphers printing only at the times at which they are required, I prefer to adopt the method shown at Figs. 10 and 11. In these figures the type representing the ciphcrsare made ot' separate pieces yi, which are piaced in grooves in the printing-disks, in which they can slide, so that when they are not required to print each lsliding type is held down below printing-surface by means of the projecting pins i', the last one of which is held down by an inclined projecting surface, i2, fixed to the disks c. This inclined surface t2, when the type-disks are at zero, keeps the whole series of pins and sliding cipher-type in their de pressed position consequentuponthepins being then in line and restingone upon the other, each pin ot` the numbering-disks G and 1) being provided with an inclined surface-piece of metal, which is so arranged that the pin holding down the cipher of the ten-disk B is released from under the incline of the disk C immediately the said disk B receives its iirst tenth ot' a revolution, the position for printing when released being assumed by means ofthe spring gi". The same action takes place successively with each of the other disks immediately they receive their tirst tenth of a movement in manner hereinbefore described. On the highest number of the combined disks heilig delivered, the stud or pin on the cipher of the disk D passes under the fixed incline surface liz ot' the disk e, and so becomes depressed, which action, as the pins are then in a line resting on each other, ca uses them to be simultaneously depressed, so as to assume their lowest position, at which time the printing-disks are again in position for a fresh start.

It at any time at'ter the machine has delivered a number below the maximum amount it is capable ot' printing it should be necessary to start at Zero, I prel'er to adopt the method shown at Figs. 8 and 9 of the drawings, in which k is a ring or circular piece of metal let into the disk c. Said ring forms the bearing IOO IOS

or support for the gearing revolving on the fixed studs m, and as such gearingis placed in a position concentric to the wheels and disks with which they gear a slight movement to the left would throw the whole series ont of' gear; and in order to effect this with facility fingers l l, projecting from the ring 7c, are provided. These tingers contain a slot or slots, through which studs project, so that when the handles u a are taken hold of and forced to the left the extent of motion is determined which will throw the wheels out of gear, and so relieve the typenumbering disks, at which time they can be placed so as to commence printing the numbers at zero or from any other number at which it would be requisite to start.

One or more type-numbering cylinders may be employed, preferably two, as shown, for printing numbers continuously and consecutively, both of which areexactly duplicates, one being designed for printing the odd and the other the even numbers.

The type printing the numerals are fixed, as shown at g, Fig. 3, to the revolving disks c, the numbers in advance being printed by the typenu-mbering disks B, C, and D, as they are intermittentlyand successively caused to revolve around their axis in manner as hereinbefore describedthat is to say, after the numerals have been delivered on the completion of the first revolution. The numbering-disks B, as in manner described, are brought intermittently into action to print the tens until the number 99 has been printed off, at which time th'e disks C come into action and print the hundreds up to the number 999, at the completion of which the disks D print the thousands up to the number 9,999, on the completion of which and immediately the last number is delivered the numbering-disks assume their first position,placingthenumbersatzero. The ciphers of the disks B, C, and D, when arriving at this position, are automatically depressed or lowered, as shown and described at Figs. l() and 17 of the drawings.

The actionof the numbering-disks, in combination with the rollers printing the subjectmatter upon the running strip of paper, will now be understood on reference to the drawings.

a a is the framing of the machine supporting the printing-rollers and apparatus, hereinafter described, necessary for printing, numbering, and perforating on a continuous strip or length of paper, tickets, checks, labels, or the like.

A spool or roller, 0, containing the blank roll of paper, card-board, or other material to he printed on, is mounted in suitable bearings, p. One end of such strip or length of paper is then passed in the direction indicated by arrows between a first set of printing-rollers, q g', q being the printingroller and q/ the impressionroller. The strip of paper receives from these rollers subject-matter on its front side. Passing on,it next receives at equal distances apart, and in register with the subject-matter previously printed thereon, numbers in consecutive order from the two cylinders, A and A, the consecutive and progressive order of printing such numbers on the ruiming length of paper being effected in manner as hereinbefore referred to. The upper surface of the paper as it is thus printed unon passes round the heated cylinder r, where the ink is dried, so as to prevent any set-off on the impression-roller s, between which and the type-roller s it next passes, and which print in registeren the back of the length ot' paper subject-matter, advertisements, designs, devices, and the like.

t t are the perforators which divide the length ot' paper into tickets. e e e e e are inkingtroughs. from which the ink is uniformly distributed to the trpe by the rollers fr.

The machine is driven by the pulley w and gearing E E.

Having now described my invention, what I claim isl. In amachine for consecutively numberin g tickets, labels, checks, Sac., upon arunning strip of paper, printing subject-matter upon both sides thereof, and perforatiug said strip into given lengths, the combination ofthe followin g elements, to wit: the spool o, the type-rolls q s', the numbering-cylinders A A, with their numbering-disks D C B c, and suitable impression-rolls, the drying-roll r, perforators t t, receiving-spool g2, inking mechanism e x, and the operating mechanism for said devices, all arranged, constructed, and operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as specified.

2. In a machine for consecutively numbering tickets, labels, checks, 85o., a continuously-rotating numbering-disk, c, in combination with a series of sets of numbering-disks, D OB, arranged in concentric order upon and rotating with said disk c, and mechanism, substantially such as described, for imparting to said series of sets of numbering-disks an independent intermittent rotation, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

3. In amachine for consecutively numbering tickets, labels, checks, &c., a continuously-rotating numbering-disk, c, provided with fixed type, in combination with a series of sets of numbering-disks, D C B, provided with movable type arranged in concentric order upon and rotating with said disk c, mechanism, substantially such as described, for imparting an independent intermittent rotation to the several sets of disksD C B, and mechanism, substantially such as described, for automatically retracting or projectin g the movable type to or from the face of said disks, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. rllhe combination, with the disks D G B, having movable type t, of mechanism, substantially as described, to automatically depress .said type below the printing-face of said disks and to release the same automatically, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination of the disks D C B, their IOO IIO

movable type t', the inclinesi2, the pins t', and the disks c, substantially as described, and for the purpose specitied.

6. The combination ofthe disks D C B, the movable typea,tl1e inelines t2, pins t', springs i4, and the disk c, substantially as described, and for the purpose specied.

7. The combination, with the disks B c, the shafts (l, and toothed disks 7L, of the driving;- shaft I) and toothed disk c, all arranged and operating in the manner and for The purpose specified.

S. The combination of the disk C, carrying;` fixed numerals, the numbering-disk B, its single-toothed disk B', the lock-wheel B2, the spurwheels B3 C', and the numbering-disk (j, with the look-wheel hf, single-toothed disk c, and the shaft b, substantially as described, for the purpose specied.

9. The combination ot' the disk c, carrying fixed numerals, the numbering-disk B, its single-toothcd disk B',the lock-Wheel B2, the spurwheels B3 C', the single-toothed disk G2, lockwheel C3, spur-wheels D' D2, and the numbering-disk D,with theloek-Wheelh, single-toothed disk e, and the shaft b, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

10. The combination of the disk c', carrying the ring-plate 7c, and mechanism, substantially such as described, to impart to said plate a partial revolution, and the shafts m, carrying;r the gearing B2 B3 D2, with the gearing B' C' C2 D', substantiallyv as and for the purpose specified.

l1. The combination, with the disks D, U, B, and c and the shafts d, and toothed disks B' C' C2 D', of the disk k, having` fixed studs m, the slotted levers l, carrying handles u, and the guide-pins u', substantially as described.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day ofSeptember, 1880.

MARCUS BEBRO.

Witnesses:

THOMAS WRIGLEY, O. T. HENMANPEN. 

